Burnout- this is not just children's fun, but often— This is a hobby that brings beautiful creations to the world. Anyone can learn to burn, regardless of whether you have the makings of an artist or simply don’t. I talked about where to start, which tells.

Today I will talk about how to burn more complex paintings. Perhaps you will be able, of course, not the first time, to burn out, for example, a portrait of your beloved.

What you will need to burn a picture:

A computer with graphics programs installed and a laser printer,

A high-quality photo (a low-quality photo may not produce a design for burning),

Acetone, cotton wool or bandage,

Planed board or better plywood, fine sandpaper,

Scorcher,

Varnishes: nitrovarnish and long-drying PF.

Today we will learn how to make a cutting board with a scorched portrait. First of all, you need to prepare the base for burning, that is, the cutting board itself. I won’t talk about how to do it in this article. I will only say that after you prepare the cutting board, the plane on which the design will be applied must be sanded with fine sandpaper until a uniform white surface is obtained. After sanding, be sure to remove any remaining dust. You can sand the other side right away so you don’t have to do it later. And so our foundation is ready.

Now let's get down to it difficult stage obtaining a design for burning from a photograph. What programs are needed to create a drawing? Well, anyone who has Photoshop or similar programs can use them. I took advantage free program from Yandex: Yandex. Photos and the program included with Microsoft Office: Microsoft Office Picture Manager.

We select the photo that we want to edit and create a separate folder for it and copy it there so that if end result It wouldn’t work, there was no need to worry. Open the photo you want to burn using Yandex. Photos. To do this, open the program and select File - Add photos..., select the folder in which your photo is located, click OK.

After the photo images are loaded, you either select all the photos to add, or only the one you need and click Import.

Your photo has now been added to Yandex. Photos. Click on the picture and press the Editor button at the bottom of the program.

Now you need to use Visual Effects, and specifically Sketch.

Click on the sketch and select the Contrast and Impact Strength, so that the contours are most successfully and clearly conveyed; the most important thing here is not to overdo it and find golden mean. And click the Apply button.

Next step This is getting clearer and bolder lines, for this we go to Color Correction. I have for of this photo I had to turn down the gamma and set the other settings to maximum. And then click the Apply button. And we exit the Yandex program. Photos.

This is what we got after working in the Yandex program. Photos.

The next step is to work with Microsoft Office Picture Manager. I won’t go into detail, I’ll just say that here we go to the section to change pictures..., where we adjust the brightness and contrast. So that the drawing is most successfully transferred to plywood or wood.

Now I will tell you why all these photo operations were carried out. At one time, there was a program on the Domashny TV channel with the famous decorator Marat Ka, and in one of the episodes he showed how an image printed on a laser printer is transferred to a wooden surface. The fact is that a laser printer applies dry toner to a sheet of paper and is burned with a laser. Some of the toner remains loosely attached to the sheet of paper and can be transferred to wood using acetone. I took advantage of this property. True, it will not be possible to transfer an image from a sheet to wood or plywood right away.

In order to transfer a drawing for burning onto wood, you need to properly prepare the drawing so that the lines have a certain thickness so that when copying, a sufficient amount of toner remains on the wood and the drawing is clear. The cotton wool needs to be wrapped in a bandage and moistened. In this case, under no circumstances should the cotton wool be very wet. The cotton wool should be slightly damp, otherwise the image will simply blur. It’s better, before you start translating the image, to try using a moistened cotton swab to draw a drawing on some unnecessary piece of wood and only then transfer the image onto the wood.

We take our board and place a sheet of paper with a design on it, with the side where the image is printed facing the board. We position the image the way we need it. The image transferred to the board will be in your mirror image. And if you want to burn an inscription, then in the drawing it should all be in a mirror image, so that when you put the drawing on the wood you get a normal inscription. Holding the paper with your hand, we begin to move a small radius of rotational movements over the drawing, gradually covering the entire drawing. After you go through the entire drawing, you can quickly go over the entire drawing again and remove the sheet of paper.

Burning is my passion. You can burn not only on wood, but also on leather, paper and other materials, but you need to approach them prepared. My master class will help you gain such experience - it is designed specifically for beginners. Before starting work, I found a photo, scanned it and printed it in the size I needed: it turned out to be about 20 by 25 centimeters. I then found a suitable piece of wood and gave it a good sanding (first 400 grit, then 600 grit). This must always be done before starting to work with wood. I then buffed it with a brown paper bag (acts the same as a grit sandpaper by the way), moving it the same way as sanding. Now I'm ready to transfer the picture to the tree. I position the image and capture it. One day I discovered that it is very convenient to use adhesive tape or masking tape to fix it - this prevents the picture from moving while I transfer the image. Now I always do this, attaching the picture to the top edge. The next step is to place the carbon copy under the portrait. Make sure you place the carbon paper with the correct side facing the wood so you don't end up with an imprint of the photo on it. back side paper, not on wood. I always look at what I'm getting at the beginning of work to be completely sure that I'm doing everything right. I use a red pen and start tracing the main lines of the photo. The red ink allows me to see which lines I've already traced. The photo transferred to wood looks something like this...

Now I'm ready to burn the portrait. Using fine shading, I start with the eyes. I always do the eyes first, this helps me maintain the resemblance to the portrait, and in general, leaving them for last is not right. Important! Never use a tilted tool to outline anything in a portrait - it leaves deep marks on the wood. You want soft eye features. I use the tip of a ballpoint pen to outline the iris and pupil so that they appear not to be in the tree, but above it. Here are baby Megan's eyes completed.

Next I do her nose, mouth, teeth and add some shadow to some areas of her face, again using fine shading. I also slightly emphasize the shape of her face... and she begins to come to life.

Now I'm moving down the left side of her face, adding more shadow. Using shading, I draw and shape her ear. I add a light shadow to the cheek, chin and forehead. I then change the attachment and, using the hair extension attachment, I begin to lightly add hair to it, being careful to maintain right direction their growth.

I paint over her hair, watching where the highlights are located - in those places I stroke weaker. Please note that her hairline is not clear and discontinuous, there are always stray strands.

It's time to move on to the fur on her sweater. I turn the picture sideways and, using shading, start with the fur under the chin and begin shading “toward me” the left side of the collar. I sometimes warm up the tool to make some areas darker than others. Now I turn the picture straight and stroke the right side of the collar away from me. The result looks something like this.

Now it's time to work on her sweater. I tried to imagine what a knitted fabric would look like in a sweater and made a couple of experimental sketches. I take my hair drawing attachment and, using the hot and lukewarm attachment, I begin to draw lines on the sweater. Pay close attention to the curves and shapes of the sweater. Previously, after drawing all the lines, I shaded a light shadow around each line. This time I wanted to create an effect where the top of the sweater is darkened and the lines zigzag across the wood without casting a shadow. Great, right?

And last but not least. I look at the portrait and decide where I need to darken a little more. When I feel like a piece is almost finished, I place it somewhere in the house for a couple of days so that I can see it when I pass by. This allows me to see if I missed anything. After a few days, I return to work and correct all the shortcomings that I noticed during this time, and finish. I sign and the work is completed. I hope you enjoyed reading my instructions step by step. I took about 40 hours to make this portrait.

Using the wood burning technique, many different images of ornaments, patterns, images of animals, birds, plants, people, nature, etc. are created. To transfer an image onto a wooden base, black graphite or regular copy paper is most often used. Some burners suggest printing a design on parchment paper, gluing it to wood and burning the design onto it. When heated, the parchment will melt, leaving scorched lines underneath. Some especially gifted pyrographists with artistic inclinations draw images, including portraits of people, by hand with a simple pencil down to the smallest detail. But what if you don’t know how to draw, but want to burn a portrait or other image without copying? Today’s article will tell you how to burn wood photos at home.

Methods for burning photographs on wood

Photographs depicting people, animals, and flora are processed in a special program, for example in Photoshop, until an image consisting of small strokes and dots is obtained. Sketches of these images are then printed on parchment paper and transferred to a wooden base using a hot burning machine. Remains of parchment can be easily removed without leaving a trace.

We study photo burning on wood using an image

A portrait of a person, any image of an animal, plant or anything else, at your request, is printed in a schematic extension on a laser printer. Ideally, this image is printed on thin photo paper. Then a burner with a round tip is drawn along the wrong side of the image, which is tightly pressed with toner to a wooden or some other base. When heated by a hot burning device, the toner on the paper melts and is printed on the surface you need. The burner must be heated to the lowest possible temperature so that the paper does not catch fire when it comes into contact with it.

It will only take a few minutes to transfer an image this way, which is a huge advantage of this method. It's also an ideal way for beginners to transfer images onto a work surface. When the toner is heated, miniature pieces of paper may remain on the surface in some places, which can be removed after the base has completely cooled by slightly moistening a cotton pad in warm water.

This method is probably the most expensive in terms of budget, but burning will require a minimum of effort from you. Typically, such a laser device is attached to a computer, which will act as a brain. A photograph with the desired image is loaded into it, processed and sent to the laser. Next, the laser burns the image line by line with progressive movements. All you have to do is coat it with varnish or paints for color.

Paintings burned from your photo on wooden base, can be ordered on the Internet. The price of such an image will depend on the complexity of the work, timing and method of production. For example, for scorched from a photograph family portrait, size 27x35 cm, pyrographer American origin asks for 250 US dollars. He makes his paintings only by hand using only metal and flame, each of them is unique and made to order. In addition, we think there is also a markup for the painstaking work involved. During the three years of his official website's existence, he sold only 48 paintings. As you can see, there are not many connoisseurs of diligence at this price.

Another English pyrographer is doing much better, who burns paintings for sale that are typical, standard, not as complex and individual as his American colleague. Therefore, his paintings using the wood burning technique are definitely cheaper, for example, he priced a portrait of singer Lana del Rey measuring 20x20 cm at $35, a map ancient world based on “The Lord of the Rings”, size 30x30 cm – $45.

As you can see, the bulk of its potential buyers are fans of media people and film buffs. During 4 months of work, this little-known pyrographer sold about 30 similar images.

Patriotic attributes and various jokes in the form of wooden signs are in great demand.

There are a sufficient number of talented pyrographers and portrait painters in Russia; their websites or groups can be easily found by typing in the search bar “burning your favorite photo on wood to order.” Below are several works of our compatriots who professionally burn portraits on wood.

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We bring to your attention several videos of burning portraits on wood with clear results.

The photograph on photographic paper must be clear and of high quality, with a format of at least 9X13 cm, preferably 10X15 cm and larger.

Digital photography must have a resolution of at least 300 dpi (300-600) to achieve the optimal final result.

The file format does not matter, JPEG is preferred.

The oval of the face should be large enough so that the facial features are clearly visible. In any case, send a photo and we will discuss all the nuances. Studio photos are welcome. If desired, on the work itself you can change the background or any other detail, as well as add a few lines on the front or back side. The final image, with all changes and wishes, is provided for approval.

Quite often there are cases when the customer wants to make a surprise to a loved one, providing blurry and small photos. In this situation, it would be better to go with him to a photo salon and make a professional photo portrait, respectively, a portrait on a tree (100% similarity is guaranteed), based on a high-quality photograph, it will turn out much better. As time passes, the person who received the surprise will appreciate the second option more. The choice is yours, but of course the optimal result is not unimportant.

Payment

To place an order, you must make an advance payment of 50% of the amount, the rest upon receipt of the portrait. Forms of payment

Cost of work

Standard work: A4 format, period 7-10 days, price 5000 rub. In other cases, the price depends on the format of work you choose, as well as the complexity and timing of completion. The difficulty is determined by the master. Each new face in the portrait +20% of the amount.

Deadlines

The deadlines are individual for each order, since they depend not only on the complexity and format, but also on the workload of the master at the time of submitting the order.

The final result is shown (often in electronic form) to finalize all the nuances and achieve a common denominator. If desired, the work is framed in an elegant baguette (for a fee).

Technique

When touched by a burner, the surface of the wood takes on the desired tone (charring). The tone depends on the time the burner is held, that is, the longer the time (the higher the temperature), the darker the tone, and vice versa. For the work, light wood species without knots or with a pronounced texture are selected, as close as possible to a white sheet of paper. From the photograph received from you, to begin with, an image is drawn with a pencil (on a pre-prepared tree of the ordered size), indicating all the tone transitions. Everything must be as accurate as possible; any disproportion or error affects the final result. Burning is not corrected, maximum concentration and accuracy are what you need to stick to. Next, the entire surface of the wood is burned, exactly matching the tone distribution in the photograph. It is worth noting that this stage is the most labor-intensive and requires a lot of patience. More time is required for elements such as backgrounds and clothing. A lot of attention is paid to details, namely their realism. Deviations from the photograph are kept to a minimum. When the work is completed, it is worth resorting to a very effective, passed the test time, the method of bringing similarity to 100%. The work and photograph are turned 180 degrees and the last percentages of similarity are finalized. What is the advantage of the method? The factor of the “accustomed eye” to a portrait disappears (the time it takes to complete the work standard size 50X35 cm is an average of 12 days). After completion, photographed finished work shown by email to the client for discussion and reaching a “common denominator”. Finally, the portrait is coated with two layers of special transparent varnish, which will subsequently provide the work with its original appearance. If desired, the work is framed in an elegant baguette (for a fee),

You can burn wood various ornaments, patterns, images of animals, plants, people and the list can be endless. In order to transfer a sketch onto wood, carbon paper is mainly used. Some of the craftsmen print out the design on parchment paper, attach it to wood, and burn it onto the paper. It melts and leaves scorched marks. Very experienced craftsmen draw their own sketch on wood, which they want to burn. Portraits are done in the same way. They are drawn with a simple black pencil on the board and only then the process begins. But there are also people who draw very poorly on their own, but really want to burn out the portrait of their relatives. What to do then? So let's answer this question and consider the topic of the article, which sounds like this: “Burning photos on wood.”

Variety of options

The very first way is to process the image in Photoshop. The image is processed so that it is all in small strokes. Then the drawings are printed on parchment paper. They attach it to the wood and begin to burn it.

The second method is when an image of a person is printed on a laser printer in a schematic extension. For this, it is best to use special thin photo paper. It is attached to the board with the wrong side and burning begins.

Please note that the heating temperature of the burning apparatus must be as low as possible, otherwise the paper may ignite.

You have a lot of time this method won't take. Because of this, he is the best in portrait burning not only for experienced craftsmen, but also for beginners. After burning, you need to remove the pieces of paper. To do this, it is necessary that the portrait is completely cooled. Then take a cotton pad, moisten it with water and wipe the finished work.

The third way is to use a special-purpose laser machine. This method It’s not cheap, but it doesn’t require much time or effort either. This laser is attached to personal computer. It performs the function of the brain. We load a photo into it, process it and send it to the laser to complete the work. Then the laser itself begins to burn out the image it received. You just need to varnish the finished portrait.

Now let's look at several master classes on burning portraits.

Portrait of a girl

For work you will need the following tools and materials:

• Carbon paper;
• Plywood sheet;
• Sandpaper;
• A simple black pencil;
• Burnout apparatus;
• Brush;
• Transparent varnish.

First you need to prepare the image itself. We do this using a special program and print it out. Then we level the surface of the plywood using sandpaper.

We attach the carbon paper and the printed sketch to the plywood. Let's circle. Afterwards, be sure to check whether all the lines are printed.

Connecting burning apparatus to the power supply and wait until it warms up. We burn it out. Cover with a layer of colorless varnish.

This is the picture we got!

For a sweet girl

To work you will need:

• Sketch;
• Wood;
• Burnout apparatus;
• Carbon paper;
• Sandpaper;
• Clear varnish;
• Brush.

Let's get to work.

We scan the selected photo and print it in the required size. We prepare the wood. We level it with sandpaper.

Then we place carbon paper on the finished base, and a drawing on top of it. Secure with tape. And we begin to outline the outline. When finished, check whether all the lines are printed on the wood. If something is bad somewhere, then we carefully finish painting it.

We connect the burning device to the network and wait until it heats up to the required temperature. We start to burn out. After the work is completed, you need to carefully remove the excess pencil lines. We do this using an eraser.

We cover the finished portrait with a layer of colorless varnish. Place out of reach of children until completely dry.

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